Tag: Community engagement

Stories aren’t a distraction from action but rather a way to nurture and inspire it.

3rd November, 2021

Community Cohesion • Community engagement • Council Voices • Local government

The right narrative or story can make the difference in creating change. How can you develop them? Bonnie Hewson of Power to Change shares some inspiring examples from communities.

9th September, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Place building

Ideas and reflections centred around three main challenges: building trust with communities; creating an organisational culture that values and enables community deliberation; and ensuring that councils are engaging with and hearing from all their communities.

1st September, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Democracy

Robyn Vinter on how people in the north of England are hungry for change in their area, and why it needs to be locally-led to succeed.

21st June, 2021

Community engagement • Devolution and reorganisation • Economy and business • Strategy and leadership

Balancing short-term and long-term political and financial pressures with the imperative to respond meaningfully to the climate emergency.

25th May, 2021

Budgeting • Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Finance • Members • Mobilisation • Strategy and leadership

Steve Skinner explores the features of strong communities and how local authorities can support them - from the grassroots up.

25th May, 2021

Community engagement • Strategy and leadership

All over the world, people are coming together to make decisions on some of the major issues we're facing today. But what is the potential for real consensus vs conflict? And does this modish form of community power have...

11th May, 2021

Citizens Assemblies • Community engagement • Community Power • Democracy • Local government • Long read

New Local partnered with Social Finance for an innovation exchange on establishing a new working relationship with partners.

20th January, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Members • Partnerships

Experiences of engaging communities - both successes and initiatives that didn't work as well as hoped.

15th June, 2020

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Democracy • Members

How to overcome common challenges and think strategically when implementing climate change policy.

4th December, 2019

Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Innovation Insights • Members • Narrative building • Strategy and leadership

Looking at data, culture, and other challenges to adopting preventative approaches.

20th September, 2019

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Data • Members • Partnerships

Developing deeper relationships with your residents and moving from a transactional relationship to a collaborative one.

20th October, 2018

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Democracy • Members • Participation and co-production